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Articles with tag: Jinnah

Pakistani Judges - Read This Lawyer’s Oath

Aisha Sarwari   Nov 18, 2007   interacts: 95

One fails to understand how the growing need to associate with Mr. Jinnah leaves Musharraf little association with the ideals that the man stood for.

Communists and the Making of Pakistan

Yasser Latif Hamdani   Oct 7, 2007   interacts: 117

History of the last years of Punjab under the Raj

Fatima Jinnah Park – Metaphor for Pakistan's Problems and their Solution

Q Isa Daudpota   Sep 7, 2007   interacts: 13

Capital Development Authority (CDA) has carved out a large corner (6000 sq yards) of the Fatima Jinnah Park for McDonald's at a ridiculously low rental

Jinnah and the Islamic State – Setting the Record Straight

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Aug 13, 2007   interacts: 362

What did Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, want for the country he was destined to create in 1947?

Citizenship and Identity in Pakistan

Yasser Latif Hamdani   May 13, 2007   interacts: 406

Before the British colonised the subcontinent, the people of this region existed in overlapping sets of multiple identities, where contending sovereignty of identity groups was negotiated and power was shared at several levels. When the British came alon

Re-Imagining Pakistan

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Dec 13, 2006   interacts: 495

Commencement lecture by Pervez Hoodbhoy at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, 9 December 2006.

South Asia’s Clarence Darrow

Yasser Latif Hamdani   Aug 13, 2005   interacts: 266

An anglicized barrister who ended up founding a separate Muslim majority state is an apparent paradox but not really so...

Dina Wadia Claims Jinnah House

Basit Ghafoor   Jun 22, 2005   interacts: 136

Wadia family has a better idea, to occupy and build a house, which was once the landmark of Jinnah Nehru meetings, the place where the dream of Pakistan was materialized. The agony of the matter is, they still want the house not the soul of Jinnah.

Open Letter To Dina Wadia

Tariq Aqil   Mar 31, 2004   interacts: 181

Welcome to Pakistan! The country handcrafted by your illustrious father. Quiad-i-Azam to Millions of Pakistanis and your loving and doting “Grey Wolf”.

Haseena and Jannat (on earth)

Shandana Minhas   Jun 15, 2003   interacts: 45

even her grim demeanor cannot hide the fact that she is very attractive

On the Assertion of Rights

Rafay Alam   May 9, 2003   interacts: 17

Why Pakistan’s institutions are ass backwards

Towards Greater Tolerance

Yasser Latif Hamdani   Jan 30, 2003   interacts: 281

Anti-Pakistanism and neo-Indian Nationalism

A Work In Progress

Feroz R Khan   Jan 6, 2003   interacts: 95

Jinnah put Pakistan in such a location that the future state would always be involved in the geo-politics of world

Lessons from Constitutional History

Jawaid Siddiqi   Oct 30, 2002   interacts: 54

But we never seem to learn from history

Pakistanis in Afghanistan, Nothing New

Malik S Khar   Feb 1, 2002   interacts: 46

The more the government cuts back on the opportunities available to the Mullah to interact with the citizen, the more the government is cutting back on the Mullahs sources of revenue

Love On The Line Of Control, a Story by Col Dharam Pal

Rahul Ghosh   Sep 23, 2001   interacts: 103

There seems to be a lot of acrimony and bad-blood between some Indian and Pakistani contributors ...

Caught In Between

Aisha Sarwari   Sep 15, 2001   interacts: 603

Pakistan is on the defensive almost constantly

Why Pakistan?

Mateen Mahmood Mohajir   May 18, 2001   interacts: 101

why should we persist in our self-flagellation?

Should Pakistan Honor the Lahore Resolution?

Bilal Ahmad   Oct 18, 2000   interacts: 514

why Pakistan failed to become a confederation in accordance with the spirit and content of the Lahore resolution?.

Protest in New York!

Omar Mirza   Sep 12, 2000   interacts: 283

Stop killing Christians in Pakistan ...

Pakistan, India and the Spirit of Chowk

Rehan Rizvi   Jul 13, 2000   interacts: 102

a time when civility ruled Chowk and personal attacks were rare

Where did Pakistan go wrong?

Lalit Mohan   May 27, 2000   interacts: 95

...you will find that in the course of time Hindus will cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims...

Open Letter to General Musharraf

Ahmad Faruqui   May 14, 2000   interacts: 119

Field Marshal Ayub Khan was forced out of power after extensive rioting . . .

ALIF - The Way Ahead?

Bina Shah   May 1, 2000   interacts: 29

to build the Kingdom of God out of scraps

Pakistan: A Failed State?

Bilal Ahmad   Feb 4, 2000   interacts: 470

If Sethi’s diagnosis has some merit, Pakistan is a potentially failed state.

He had no Choice!

Bilal Musharraf   Oct 14, 1999   interacts: 1110

A personal perspective on the suspension of parliament

Imran Khan: Pakistan’s Next PM?

George F Maximillian   Jul 17, 1999   interacts: 60

In terms of being a hypocrite - who in Pakistan isn’t?

Falsehoods Galore

Fauziya Khan   Jul 4, 1999   interacts: 108

Pakistan has thus turned into an oligarchy well versed in the art of making things disappear

The Decline and Fall of Pakistan

Feroz R Khan   May 10, 1999   interacts: 28

Pakistan on the crossroads of a dilemma

Need for a Confederation

Soumitra Bose   Feb 21, 1999   interacts: 30

India had never been a Nation, it is still not one

Jinnah, My Hero

Godot    Jan 18, 1999   interacts: 74

Jinnah, the fragile man with an iron will.

Builders’ Mafia

Shandana Minhas   Nov 20, 1998   interacts: 20

Travails of Karachi’s people and skyline.

Baybay

Bad Girl   Nov 15, 1998   interacts: 56

On the importance of age in relationships.

Giving Way to Intolerance

Mehdi Hasan   Sep 14, 1998   interacts: 12

During the last many years, religious intolerance and sectarian fanaticism have created a war-like situation in Pakistan

Statesmanship Needed

Dilawar Syed   May 21, 1998   interacts: 6

Mr. Bhutto’’s decision to go nuclear would prove pivotal quarter of a century later

The Intellectual Imperative

Saad Shafqat   Apr 24, 1998   interacts: 26

As a people and a nation, Pakistan’s need for intellectual direction has never been greater. So where are the intellectuals?

Women and Police

Chowk P Room   Jan 21, 1998   interacts: 26

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you... - Jinnah

Almost Live in Concert

Musician    Oct 24, 1997   interacts: 6

It is important for us to understand more about DAT’s and Sequencers and how they work because paying $10 or more for a live performance where as only 10% of that is live, in my opinion, is making a fool out of people.

The Old Pakistan is Dead, Long Live New Pakistan

Sohail Rabbani   Oct 23, 1997   interacts: 54

On December 16, 1971 Pakistan ceased to exist during a well celebrated ceremony when Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi and Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Arora signed an armistice document.

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